Opinion
7811.
February 9, 2006.
Order, Family Court, New York County (Sara P. Schechter, J.), entered on or about April 27, 2004, which denied respondent mother's petition to modify the placement plan by having her children moved from the nonkinship foster care placement to the maternal grandmother's home, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Dora M. Lassinger, East Rockaway, for appellant.
Michael A. Cardozo, Corporation Counsel, New York (Cheryl Payer of counsel), for respondent.
Tamara A. Steckler, The Legal Aid Society, New York (Susan Clement of counsel), Law Guardian.
Before: Mazzarelli, J.P., Saxe, Sullivan, Nardelli and Williams, JJ., concur.
The court properly exercised its discretion in denying the mother's petition where the hearing evidence established that the maternal grandmother, inter alia, minimized the special needs of the subject children and failed to cooperate with the children's psychiatric service providers ( see Family Ct Act § 1055; Matter of Marie Annette M., 23 AD3d 167).